Deleuze y Sacher-Masoch: devenir y perversión

Abstract

This text displays an analysis of the Sacher-Masoch narrative from the reading of Deleuze, framed with the Freudian proposals. Masochism and the masochistic contract expose the nature of pain as constitutive of the human, both of love life and of politics. The radical disjunction between masochism and sadism is made explicit; masochism moves away from the psychiatric field, so that it takes its place in narrative fiction, since it is the rituals of the word that sustain it.